Fellowships for which some international graduate students are eligible

1. All Social Science Research Council fellowships (http://www.ssrc.org) Offers international dissertation research grant, dissertation topic development

fellowship, and others

2. American Institute of Indian Research Fellowships (www.indiastudies.org/fellow.htm)

Lets you conduct dissertation research in India

3. UC fellowships (note: most UC fellowships carry no citizenship restrictions)

a. UC Research Expeditions Program for Field Research (www.extension.ucdavis.edu/urep/index.asp)

May have been discontinued

b. Natural Reserve System (NRS), Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant (http://nrs.ucop.edu/grants/mathias/index.htm)

For independent and field science studies at NRS reserves

c. Pacific Rim Research Program (www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/) Funds master’s or dissertation research abroad

d. Humanities Research Institute Fellowships (www.uchri.org/) Dissertation award in the humanities and medicine, travel grants, and more

e. Tobacco-Related Disease-Research Program (www.trdrp.org) Dissertation funding

f. Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Graduate Fellowships (www.igcc.ucsd.edu)

Various dissertation fellowships g. Linguistic Minority Research Institute Dissertation Grants (lmri.ucsb.edu/)

May have been discontinued

h. Institute for Research in the Arts awards (www.ucira.ucsb.edu/)

i. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Graduate Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.cns.ucsb.edu/about-cns-ucsb/)

j. UC MEXUS Doctoral Dissertation Grants (ucmexus.ucr.edu/) For research related to the UC and Mexico Also provide small research grants

k. University-wide AIDS Research Program (http://www.californiaaidsresearch.org/)

l. UC ACCORD Dissertation Fellowships (http://ucaccord.gseis.ucla.edu/fellowships-grants)

4. Asian Cultural Council Programs (http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/?page_id=20)

Grants to pursue creative activities in Asia

5. Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowships for exploring the problems of violence and aggression in the modern world (www.hfg.org/rg/application.htm)

Post-doctoral and dissertation fellowships

6. Population Council, Social Science Fellowship Program (www.popcouncil.org/slr/fellowships.html)

Post-doctoral fellowships for those from developing nations

7. Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund (http://www.aspeninstitute.org/)

8. American Statistical Association, ASA/NSF Research Fellowships (www.amstat.org/research_grants/index.cfm?fuseaction=main_

Dissertation research and other small grants in various subject areas

9. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies (www.woodrow.org/womens-studies)

10. TIAA-CREF Ruth Wilson Fellowship on the African Diaspora (www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org)

May have been discontinued

11. All Getty grants (http://www.getty.edu/grants/) Research grants in the history of art, education and professional development

grants in visual art

12. National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Graduate Research Fellowship Program (www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Fellowship/)

13. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (www.wennergren.org) Predoctoral, dissertation, and post-doctoral fellowships in anthropology

14. Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education (www.spencer.org)

Spencer also offers post-doctoral awards

15. Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (www.woodrow.org/newcombe)

For “original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences”

16. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (www.nsf.gov) Prestigious awards in both the natural and social sciences

17. American Association for University Women International Fellowships (www.aauw.org)

For women who are not US citizens or permanent residents and who show “demonstrated commitment to women and girls”

18. The Brookings Institution Research Fellowship (http://www.brookings.edu/) Fellowships in foreign policy and other areas

19. Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship in the Arts (www.faa.uiuc.edu/) For advanced study in the fine arts

20. American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships (www.americanheart.org) Can include public health / behavioral research

21. American Musicological Society Alvin H. Johnson and Howard Mayer Brown AMS Fellowships (http://www.ams-net.org/fellowships/ams50.php)

Johnson awards dissertation-year fellowships Emphasis on musical scholarship Brown is for earlier in graduate career Promotes the “presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology”

22. All Smithsonian Institution Fellowships (http://si.edu/ofg/)

23. Association for Institutional Research (AIR), NCES/NSF Grant Program Dissertation Fellowships (http://www.airweb.org/GrantsAndScholarships/Pages/DissertationGrants.aspx)

24. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Doctoral Fellowships (http://www.aei.org/research/nri/projectID.22/default.asp)

May have been discontinued

25. All Medieval Academy of America Grants and Fellowships (www.medievalacademy.org/gradstudents/gradstudent_grants.htm)

Many different awards

26. Google Anita Borg Scholarship (www.google.com/anitaborg/)

For women in technology

27. NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (nspires.nasaprs.com)

28. Department of Transportation Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship Program (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpp/2012_grad_app.htm)

Funding to pursue master’s or doctoral degrees in transportation-related fields Must plan to enter transportation field after degree

29. Leakey Foundation, Franklin Mosher Baldwin Fellowships for citizens of developing countries (www.leakeyfoundation.org)

For MA or PhD Prehistory and paleoanthropology

30. California Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (http://www-csgc.ucsd.edu/EDUCATION/SeaGrantFellows.html)

National policy affecting marine/ocean/Great Lakes resources Other California Sea Grant fellowships are also available

31. Space Telescope Science Institute Graduate Student Research Assistantships (www.stsci.edu/institute/sd/students/gradstudent.html)

32. American Geophysical Union Horton Research Grant (http://hydrology.agu.org/#five)

Research projects in hydrology and water resources

33. Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy research grants (http://horowitz-foundation.org/grant-info.html)

Social sciences

34. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark)

For doctoral students “Encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and

to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation” Post-docs and doctoral students eligible for separate award specific to

astrobiology